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...century later, and the noose is still tight around The Tenants of Time. Absentee landholders and bankers squeeze the squires, who drain the tenant farmers. Eviction, the workhouse and starvation are common fates. The women cling to the church and the men to the bottle, but a growing number, like Edward Nolan, take to the gun. Nolan was a Fenian leader at the time of Clonbrony; later he is hardened in Portland prison and becomes experienced in conspiracy and vengeful murder on both sides of the Atlantic...
More than half the foreign students remain in the U.S., which thereby enjoys the fruits of an overseas brain drain. Still, many U.S. universities are closing the door. The University of Illinois' graduate engineering program, for example, has a 20% quota for foreign students. Responding to pressure from state legislators, Berkeley Engineering Dean Karl Pister admits, "We have tried, in a systematic way, to trim down the number of foreign students" -- to 37% from last year...
...rebels assert that the real motive behind the program is to persecute Eritreans and Tigreans and drain the rebel fronts of potential recruits. Dr. Frederick Machmer, head of the U.S. relief team in Addis Ababa, believes the rebels are disrupting the aid effort so the international community will accept "that they are a force to be reckoned with and that they control areas of the north." Geldof, whose organization owned some of the trucks blown up in October, finds the tactics of both sides despicable. Said he last week: "To attack food trucks and seal off roads in these conditions...
...often happens in a televised age, the image Gorbachev projected was divorced from the reality of what he actually said: that the Berlin Wall was built by East Germany to protect itself from outside interference; that Moscow restricts emigration in order to thwart Western attempts to create a brain drain; that Soviet troops are in Afghanistan because of repeated requests from that country for protection from foreign subversion; that the U.S.S.R. is pursuing its own Star Wars research...
Where will it end? Will we soon get "Lola (Likes Pepsi-Cola)," "Who'll Unstop the Drain," "Goodnight Sweetheartburn Goodnight", or as Saturday Night Live has suggested "Hey Hey You You (Leggo My Eggo...